Clothesline reel



Patente-d Nov. 8, 1927.

UNITED STATES CARL OSCAR SWANSON, OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

i CLOTHESLINE REEL.

Application filed Apr 15, 1925. Serial No. 23,264.

This invention relates to improvements in wWit-h the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illust-rated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in whichf Fig. l is a perspective view of the reel with the clothes line wound thereupon. F ig. 2 is a view of the reel in elevation.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. l. Lilie reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views. The reel is preferably made of wire and comprises a body portion 1 preferably oblong in shape, the wire being coiled substantially midway of the body portion to form the sleeve 2 which is parallel to the ends of the body portion. From three of the corners of the body portion a coiled wire arm, or twisted wire arm, 3 extendsoutwardly and terminates in an eye 4, and from the fourth corner a longer angular arm 5 extends outwardly andk tern'nnates in an eye 6.

y A handle 7 formed of a wire loop is pro-k vided, the wire beyond the handle being twisted upon itself and passed through the sleeve 2 and terminating beyond the same in the eye 8 that prevents withdrawal of the 35 handle from the body of the reel. The body Y l is supported and rotates upon the portion of the handlethat passes through the sleeve 2 and said body mayv be manually rotated upon the handle to wind or unwind the line 40 9. The line is wound about the ends or shorter sides of the body portion and the arms 3, 5 prevent it from slipping 0E the body portion.

What is claimed is In aclothes line reel, an oblong body portion formed of a single strand of wire, a sleeve integral with said n body port-ion formed by coiling the wire comprising the longer sides thereof, said sleeve being paralc lel with the ends of the body portion, arms at the corners of said body portion formed by twisting the wire upon itself and eX- tending it obliquely outward, eyes formed at the free ends of said rarms, one of sai-d arms being substantially longer than any of theA others, and a handle extending through said sleeve portion and supporting said body portion. c

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have'hereto affixed my signature.

CARL OSCAR Sl/VANSON. c 

